Animal Radio® Creators & Guests

Dr. Lori Marino is a neuroscientist and expert in animal behavior and intelligence. She is the founder and executive director of The Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy and President of the Whale Sanctuary Project.Previously, Marino was a senior lecturer at Emory University for 20 years and faculty affiliate at the Emory Center for Ethics.Marino received her B.A. in Physiological Psychology from New York University, her M.A. in Experimental Psychology from Miami University, and her Ph.D. in Biological Psychology from SUNY University at Albany.

Dave Barry is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels.

Dr. Helen Elizabeth Fisher is a biological anthropologist, human behavior researcher, and self-help author. Her work focuses on the biology of love and attraction. Currently, she is a senior research fellow at The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, and a member of the Center For Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University.Previously, Fisher was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.In 2005, Fisher was hired by match.com to help build chemistry.com, which used her research and experience to create both hormone-based and personality-based matching systems. She was a speaker at the 2006 and 2008 TED conferences. She has written six books on lust, romance and attachment.Fisher received her B.A. in Anthropology and Psychology from New York University in 1968, her M.A. in Physical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Linguistics, and Archeology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1972, and her Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.